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supernihilist on 06 March 2014

i think consoles should all be cart based like the NEC PC engine

currently 3DS game carts are up to 4GB i think
i can imagine most modern home console games are no really much bigger than 8-16GB. even biggest ones would fit with a lil bit of compression...



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Azhraell on 06 March 2014
Ryudo said:
leyendax69 said:

The CD technology wasn't owned by Sony and some other companies?


Phillips held the rights to CD Rom

I know, it was developed for both, that's why I said "some other company". The point is, Nintendo wasn't one of them.



DevilRising on 06 March 2014

If N64 would have had CDs, companies like Konami, Capcom, Enix and Square all likely would have stuck with Nintendo, and thus major games like FF7, Metal Gear Solid, Mega Man X 4, DQ7, Parasite Eve, Symphony of the Night, etc., would likely have been on N64 instead of Playstation. Or at least been multiplat.

Bottom line, if N64 had CD format, they likely would have won that gen.



Nem on 06 March 2014

What if... indeed.

Much could have been different, but somehow i think we would end up on nintendoom anyways. Its just a thing. People love to hate on Nintendo cause they deem it "kiddy" and they feel the need to expressed their (lack of) maturity.



Ganoncrotch on 06 March 2014
supernihilist said:
i think consoles should all be cart based like the NEC PC engine

currently 3DS game carts are up to 4GB i think
i can imagine most modern home console games are no really much bigger than 8-16GB. even biggest ones would fit with a lil bit of compression...


Vita cards are probably even bigger again, when you consider that a single Vita cart has MGS2+3 on it.



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Nintentacle on 06 March 2014
Nem said:
What if... indeed.

Much could have been different, but somehow i think we would end up on nintendoom anyways. Its just a thing. People love to hate on Nintendo cause they deem it "kiddy" and they feel the need to expressed their (lack of) maturity.

That, and GameCube, Wii, and Wii U would have been the exact same.



Soundwave on 06 March 2014

Wii and Wii U likely wouldn't exist ... as Nintendo never would've relinquished their position as the defacto "core" gaming console.

That gen probably would've turned out something like this

N64 - 85-100 million
Playstation - 30-40 million
Saturn - same as before.

Most third party games like Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, etc. would've been multiplatform. N64 probably would've had better versions of some of those games too, as I do feel the N64 chip was better and the CD format would've addressed the low res texture and poor music problems. 

I think Squaresoft would've just opted to play it safe and stick with Nintendo. Sony was an unknown and really wasn't even doing that hot in Japan early on ... even the Saturn was outselling it there. 

It was only when a game like Final Fantasy VII was basically technically impossible on the N64 that their hand was forced.